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The Breton Ivo (also Yvo, Yves) Hélory (in Breton: Erwan Helouri) was born at Kermartin (Côtes-d'Armor), near Tréguier. An ecclesiastical lawyer and judge famous for defending the poor, he studied at Paris and at Orléans and practiced at Rennes and at Tréguier. In his later years he was ordained priest. He then spent the remainder of his life in two Breton parishes, dying in great poverty on this day in 1303. A popular cult arose immediately, scraps of Ivo's clothing were treated as relics, and many miracles were ascribed to him. Ivo has an extensive hagiographic dossier beginning in the early 1330s with texts prepared for his canonization trial (BHL 4625ff.). Canonization came in 1347. Ivo is Tréguier's patron saint, a secondary patron of Brittany, and a patron saint of lawyers and judges. Today is his feast day in Brittany and his day of commemoration in the Roman Martyrology.
In 1420 duke Jean V of Brittany vowed a new tomb for Ivo in Tréguier's cathedral of St. Tudwal. This was built and survived until 1794, when it was destroyed by the soldiers of the bataillon d'Étampes, who had taken over the town. Its late nineteenth-century replacement is a replica:
http://tinyurl.com/2d9fjjr
http://www.infobretagne.com/images/cathedrale-treguier_33.jpg
http://armorpassion.com/culture/st%20yves/Tombeau%20de%20St%20Yves.JPG
Ivo's skull is displayed at one end of the monument:
http://i44.servimg.com/u/f44/11/64/82/51/le_sai10.jpg
http://tinyurl.com/22vecjo
Some period-pertinent images of St. Ivo of Kermartin (in one case only a possible image):
a) as depicted in a fourteenth-century panel painting in the cappella di Sant'Ivo in Florence's cattedrale metropolitana di Santa Maria del Fiore:
http://i44.servimg.com/u/f44/11/64/82/51/saint182.jpg
b) as depicted in the later fourteenth-century Breviary of Charles V (ca. 1364-1370; Paris, BnF, ms. Latin 1052, fol. 378r):
http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b84525491/f765.item.zoom
c) as depicted (with a patron; both in grisaille) in a panel of an early fifteenth-century glass window (bay 106, lancet a; ca. 1417-1419; some nineteenth-century restoration) in the choir of the cathédrale Saint-Corentin in Quimper:
http://img.over-blog-kiwi.com/1/40/19/56/20160315/ob_8f1e08_l1150186cc.JPG
d) as depicted (at right, in grisaille; at left, Anne de Mathefelon in prayer, her guardian angel, and a young servitor) in the earlier fifteenth-century Hours of Anne de Mathefelon (ca. 1425; Bourges, Musée du Berry, inv. 1924.4.1, fol. 98r):
http://www.pecia.fr/communities/1/000/001/224/891/images/1071952.jpg
e) as perhaps depicted in a mid-fifteenth-century panel painting (ca. 1450) by Rogier van der Weyden in the National Gallery in London:
http://www.wga.hu/art/w/weyden/rogier/16portra/03stivo1.jpg
f) as depicted in grisaille (at left; with petitioners) by Jean le Tavernier in the mid-fifteenth-century Hours of Philip of Burgundy (ca. 1451-1460; Den Haag, KB, ms. 76 F 2, fol. 267v):
http://manuscripts.kb.nl/zoom/BYVANCKB%3Amimi_76f2%3A267v_min
g) as depicted (at left, pleading) in a later fifteenth-century copy, with illuminations by a Flemish master, of the _Legenda aurea_ in its French-language version by Jean de Vignay (ca. 1470; Mâcon, Médiathèque municipale, ms. 3, fol. 256v):
http://tinyurl.com/2by8jbk
h) as depicted in a late fifteenth-century breviary for the Use of Langres (after 1481; Chaumont, Mediathèque de Chaumont, ms. 32, fol. 429r):
http://tinyurl.com/2efczpz
i) as portrayed in a late fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century statue (ca. 1500) in the église Saint-Jean-Baptiste in Chaumont (Haute-Marne):
http://tinyurl.com/2ang7vf
Detail view:
http://tinyurl.com/23pygm3
j) as depicted (panel at right; at left, St. John the Baptist) by Defendente Ferrari in a panel, from a dismembered early or earlier sixteenth-century altarpiece (variously dated to ca. 1506-1510 and to ca. 1530), in the Museo Civico d'Arte Antica (Palazzo Madama) in Turin:
http://img2.juzaphoto.com/001/shared_files/uploads/808473.jpg
k) as depicted in an early sixteenth-century panel (1515) of a largely modern glass window (bay 17) in the cathédrale Notre-Dame in Saint-Lô:
http://therosewindow.com/pilot/St-Lo/w17-b2.htm
The window as a whole:
http://therosewindow.com/pilot/St-Lo/w17-Frame.htm
l) as depicted (in the central panel; with petitioners) by Defendente Ferrari in an earlier sixteenth-century altarpiece (commissioned ca. 1520) in the Galleria Sabauda in Turin:
http://194.242.241.163/fedora/objects/work:28001/datastreams/MM91472/content
m) as depicted (at right; at left, St. John the Theologian) in an earlier sixteenth-century glass window (1524) in the Universitätskapelle of the Münster in Freiburg im Breisgau:
http://tinyurl.com/32vw7hc
n) as depicted (scenes) in an earlier to mid-sixteenth-century glass window (bay 18; ca. 1540) in the église paroissiale Saint-Pierre in Montfort-l'Amaury (Yvelines):
http://therosewindow.com/pilot/Montfort-Lamaury/w18.htm
Best,
John Dillon
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